About Us

Since 1999, Growthink has helped privately held companies raise capital for growth and shareholder liquidity. We accomplish this through our suite of services including expertly identifying and pursuing new opportunities; building marketing and growth strategies, and developing and executing upon innovation, exit and business plans. And through our wholly-owned subsidiary Growthink Capital, a FINRA / SIPC registered broker-dealer investment bank, we directly raise equity and debt capital and advise upon business sale & merger transactions for emerging and middle market companies.

Our Story

In 1999, Growthink co-founders Dave Lavinsky and Jay Turo graduated with their MBAs from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. They conceived Growthink from their deep and abiding passion and curiosity for business. As Turo says, “The work we do at Growthink is what Dave and I would just naturally do whenever we got together – talking about businesses we love and how to make them better.” Since that time, Lavinsky and Turo have built Growthink’s team, client base, and service and product offerings to help ambitious executives and entrepreneurs better strategize and attain their most important business goals and objectives, including business financing, growth, and exit.

Our Mission

Growthink’s mission is to help executives and entrepreneurs grow their businesses so they can create jobs, offer customers better products and services, realize personal satisfaction and wealth, and fund programs that make the world a better place.

Our Values

Integrity. In all our work, we subscribe to the simple credo of saying what we will do and doing what we say.

Courage. We hold ourselves and our clients to extraordinarily high standards of performance, ethics, and accountability.

Positivity. We encourage our clients and each other to focus and act on what is doable and good, and to approach challenges and difficulties with a pro-active, problem-solving mindset.

Our Team

Growthink team members have deep entrepreneurial and professional backgrounds, and our collaborative environment ensures that each client benefits from the experience and insight of our team. Meet the Growthink Team

Our Client Promises

We Honor Your Journey. We are present with and for You. We have the ultimate respect for those that embark on the great “hero’s journey” of business. With each and every client, we embrace our mission of helping executives and entrepreneurs – with all kinds of ambitions, objectives, goals, dreams, and visions – to succeed.

We Deliver Quality. We subscribe to Robert Pirsig’s famous definition of quality as the “result of care.” We take care to do and create things right.

We Are a Team. We embody and utilize the royal “WE”, not the pedestrian “I.” We recognize that we all stand on each other’s shoulders in doing great work, in accomplishing great things.

We Are Efficient. Brevity and timeliness are high virtues. We define and adhere to project roles, responsibilities, and timelines. We “get on with it,” and effectively utilize technology to collaborate, to connect, and to complete in transparent, real-time manners.

We are Opportunistic and Strategic. We find that fine balance between the “fierce urgency of now” to complete tasks and to do lists, and the longer, strategic view of building value over time.

Clients

Client Feedback

We are extremely proud of the feedback we have received from our clients over the years for the quality of our work and our commitment to their success.Below is a representative sample of what our clients have told us upon completion of their engagements.

Great Expectations

Like all entrepreneurs (and, I’m a serial one), we all tend to fall in love with our own creations (and words to describe them). We have to! If we’re not our biggest cheerleader, who is?

This is why Growthink helped birth my company. They got to know both me and my vision. They helped ‘smack me upside the head’ to make sure I was realistic, about meeting expectations.